Principle and propensity
Subtitle: experience and religion in the nineteenth-century British and American bildungsroman
By: Kelsey L. Bennett
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Columbia, South Carolina
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
ISBN-13: 9781611173642; 9781611173659
Subjects: English fiction; History and criticism; English Bildungsromans; American fiction; American Bildungsromans; Bildungsromans; Self-actualization (Psychology) in literature; Self-realization in literature; Religion in literature
Other titles: Experience and religion in the nineteenth-century British and American bildungsroman
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-186) and index.
Table of contents: title: John Wesley's formative "spiritual empiricism"; title: The paradox of experience in Jonathan Edwards; title: Pietism and the "free movement" of self-cultivation: synthesis and transformation in Wilhelm Meister's apprenticeship; title: To enjoy my own faculties as well as to cultivate those of other people: the affective bildung of Jane Eyre; title: "Faith in the immanence of spirit": Arminian self-formation in David Copperfield; title: Pierre, or Melville's anarchic Calvinist bildungsroman; title: "An impulse more tender and more purely expectant": the ardent good faith of Isabel Archer.